Do you also disparage and refuse to accept the definition of faith provided by Scripture?
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
SO then you retract the definition of faith that you provided? In toto or in part?
***The Dictionary.com mention was a REFERENCE to prove that “Trading in one term that sounds just like another doesn’t mean much to me”:
People like me have CONFIDENCE in Science based, tentatively, upon the preponderance of evidence. ***Than shall we use the term Science-confident? Trading in one term that sounds just like another doesn’t mean much to me. They’re all about the same. Dictionary.com
When the time came for me to “Provide” a definition, I PROVIDED one and you have refused to use it.
Do you also disparage and refuse to accept the definition of faith provided by Scripture? “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
*** I do not disparage the definition of faith as provided by Scripture. The scriptural definition of faith is good and useful for comparing scripture to scripture. None of what we’ve been discussing in terms of scientism rises to the level of scripture, so the scriptural definition wouldn’t be as useful as an unloaded one from Dictionary.com.
I do find you to be a disruptive influence on this ecumenical thread and I am asking you to leave. Your tactics are more suited for open threads. If you like, feel free to open a thread just like this one with your own definition of faith or whatever. Best of luck.